This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for the Encouragement of Young Scientists from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan, the 21st Century COE Program “Knowledge Information Infrastructure for Genome Science”, the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (Japan), and Meiji Seika, which are gratefully acknowledged.

Publication History

Issue online: 9 MAR 2007

Version of Record online: 15 FEB 2007

Manuscript Received: 24 OCT 2006

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan